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Africa’s effort to make most of its own vaccines by 2040 faces significant headwinds
Companies striving to reduce continent’s reliance on foreign shots must overcome major financial and logistical challenges
Butterfly wing patterns give predators the old razzle-dazzle
Optical illusions trick enemies into misjudging the insects’ speed and direction
Method to ‘watermark’ AI-designed proteins could deter bioweapons, protect scientific credit
Google DeepMind team inserts identifiable pattern into protein’s sequence without compromising its structure or function
Five physics breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t
How politics, bad timing, and skepticism left foundation stones of modern physics unrecognized
Will Trump administration weaken protections for human research subjects?
Ethicists are wary of an HHS proposal to loosen rules for “low-risk research”
These frogs ‘see’ prey with their star-shaped toes
Fingertips of Suriname toads are hypersensitive motion detectors, new study reveals
Scientists engineered a glowing cuttlefish. Why was it so hard?
Breakthroughs in genetically altering cephalopods pave way for new studies of perception, brain evolution, and more
Russian drone kills at least two in Ukraine science academy attack
New underground labs are being built as war rages on
Fed up with Brazil’s politicians not listening, a climate scientist runs for office
Luciana Gatti, who studies carbon uptake in the Amazon, aims to join Brazil’s lower house in this weekend’s elections
U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed
The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns
Japan’s Science Council to face greater governmental oversight
Imminent change in legal status raises concerns that national academy will serve political interests
Laser-generated particles allow scientists to see through walls
First clean pictures from a muon beam point to a new way to peer inside suspicious packages and ancient structures
New space telescope will reopen astronomers’ view of the far-infrared
NASA’s $1.2 billion PRIMA will explore how galaxies evolve and how planets emerge from disks of gas and dust
Little-known arm of immune system could be key to better vaccines, cancer therapies
The CD1 system responds to lipids, not proteins, driving reactions to bee stings, bacteria, and possibly poison ivy
NIH details $170 million biomedical research reproducibility effort
Agency director announces literature search tool, other plans to improve reliability of science findings
Can an AI feel pain? It can at least act like it does
Study reignites debate over what, if anything, machines can feel
Project will harness technology to track Amazon biodiversity in real time
Leaders of $100 million effort will use automated detection methods and computer models to monitor species’ trends
Bones link 10,000-year-old temple complex to a village, not a ‘skull cult’
Landslides, not rituals, may have scattered skulls and bones at Turkey’s famed Göbekli Tepe site
How the ‘fire amoeba’ withstands temperatures that would kill most complex life
Incendiamoeba cascadensis may survive in volcanic lakes thanks to a static blanket that shields its proteins from the heat
Submerged land bridge may have helped people cross the Mediterranean
A campaign to map and sample the bridge could help reconstruct ancient animal migrations
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